On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 03:56:53PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 07 Mar 2020, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> [snip]
>
> >
> > will do as you suggest.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
> This discussion is very interesting. The same thing happened to me
> on 6 March, when after completing the upgrade my Dell Optiplex 3020
> refused to boot. I assumed it was a hardware failure and spent the
> next three days bringing up an older Acer n460 which the Dell had
> replaced.
>
>
> I don't have the facility at present to put the disk in another
> machine so it looks like I'm stuck.
>
>
> Anthony
>
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> Anthony Campbell http://www.acampbell.uk
>
There are other ways: dd a miniroot to a usb stick, boot from that
into boot>
boot the harddisk and do an upgrade. See the boot(8) man page for details.
-Otto
